Awesome, much appreciated!
Awesome, much appreciated!
So say I’m dumb and don’t know how to find a fork like that…
I cancelled prime when they first introduced ads. But the delivery fees without prime, damn. I think I’d pirate shows if I got prime but I’m pretty sure that just makes them think they should invest in fewer shows. And damned if, pre ads, prime didn’t have a lot of my favourites (boys, invincible, end of the expanse etc.)
What a ramble. I’m just torn.
To paraphrase the Beatles “they get high with a little help from their friends”
Anything that makes housing affordable would also remove a significant amount of wealth from the elderly, who outvote and (I think) out donate other demographic groups.
Pretty hard thing to do politically.
I dunno, I think especially in older generations, the earnest conversation is something to be avoided at all costs. For my dad, that’s just how he was raised and I think his worst nightmare would be talking about feelings or something.
So take that and then put a hobby/passion that clearly means a lot to your folks and yeah, those can really combine in unfortunate ways.
Personally, when we’re not talking politics (my parents’ version of sports) I will sometimes throw more serious or interesting questions at mom (as said, dad hates that so I don’t push) and sometimes get interesting answers. It’s effort and mostly a one way street but I try to remember they’re not from a super healthy emotional era and even if they might at times be open to it, it does not come naturally to them (or me if I’m being honest.)
Don’t know if that early morning ramble helps but I hope it does.
Thanks, I appreciate that! And yup, definitely told that a few times.
Forgot a lighter which has so far led to 2 weddings and 5 kids?
In the first week of school, a buddy and I wandered around with beer and joints to various dorms but forgot a lighter. Asking around for one, we made a new friend. Fast forward a couple years, “new friend” let me know about a home for rent opening up. I rounded up some folks (including original buddy) and we rented it. Except one guy was gone for the summer. So, a gal came from out of town to live with there. We became friends, she fell in love and ended up moving here. Between her, her best friend and sister they’ve had 5 kids with partners mostly from that original friend circle.
So, if I had remembered a lighter way back in first year, we wouldn’t have put a house of folks together, wouldn’t have met gal and her pals and thus a few weddings and kids would’ve happened differently or not at all.
30 years seems reasonable. On an unrelated note, Audrey Hepburn died 31 years ago.
Except that definition had an absence of evidence.
It’d be weird after half a century of tv, if suddenly in the 2010s it somehow escalated all the self harm/suicide stats.
I’m not young but I still missed out!
All the hockey.
There are a lot of great paying shitty jobs. Working on pipelines, any remote construction etc.
This might help you understand the issue with reddit, which apparently has yet to ever cover its operating costs within a year:
Kind of eye opening, even if you vaguely understood the situation beforehand.
I think you’re misunderstanding my point.
You can still use reddit for free, that won’t change. That is because to reddit you are cattle, the product, what is being sold.
And as long as you are a product, reddit is going to extract as much value from you as they can. It’s why their valuation is in the billions, you are lucrative cattle. And qs someone who has wrangled that cattle, spez is taking his cut.
These are sites premised on free labour but the end user pays nothing to enjoy the site.
As much value is created by those volunteers, the operating/dev costs are very real and can’t just be hand waved away.
Probably very unpopular thoughts but…
A) How many of us wouldn’t angle for an almost 200 million dollar payout? Seriously? All of us are too good for that?
B) Social media like reddit is basically free for users and costs way more than most of us could afford to run. We probably need to figure out some middle ground where people expect to pay a few pennies for something they use for hours a day. Unfortunately, advertising etc has conditioned/conned people into thinking everything should be “free” and with ads.
My regular stream site started having issues tonight, so this was kind of miraculous timing! Hopefully one of these works!